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Letter 27.
Thank you a thousand times. I could not understand what was meant by the omission of "United States of America," which I suppose was an oversight.
I have sent the contract you were so kind as to copy for me—there must be no mistake about the English rights.
I suppose I may have been wrong in not asking for an advance royalty (I was offered $500 in advance on the last book—but I have an absurd presentiment (the only superstition I entertain) that if I take any advance, I shall never get any more from the book. This of course is ridiculous. At any rate I am very much obliged to you. If this book makes the impression of [. . .][1] that I think it will, would it be possible—do you think?—to place my next as a serial. I can't hold a book over for a serial, but I should like to have it start in a magazine as soon as it is finished—say in from two to three years. It is not begun as yet, but I have the plot—and it will be laid before & during the late war.[2]
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